Tobacco-booking table



(No Model.)

0. SEEL. 4 TOBAOOO BOOKING TABLE. No. 255,540. Patented Mar. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE.

CHARLES SEEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOBACCO-BOOKING TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,540, dated March 28, 1882.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES SEEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Booking or Padding Table for Leaf-Tobacco, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates toimprovements in machines for booking or padding leaf-tobacco.

The object of my invention is to furnish a simple and inexpensive machinethat will readilyperform the holding and bookingoftobaceo.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the front of booking-table with arms closed. Fig. 2 is a view of the side, with treadle better shown; and Fig. 3 is the same as Fig. 1 with arms extended.

Similar letters refer to similar par ts throughout the several views.

a is a cushion upon which the leaf is spread, and t t i i its legs or standards, and f the top of table, which constitutes the frame-work of the booking-table. The holding-pads b b are hinged to arms 0 a, so as to be movable. d d are the guides on each side for arms 0 c on the cross-bar between the legs i i. At the connection between the arms 0 c and the treadle g the arms a 0 are hingedto a bar,3, which connects them through rod 2, which is connected by hinge to lever h, and is kept in place between treadle g and rod 1 by-a fork. Lever h is fastened to a cross-piece in the rear by a spiral spring-hinge, e, to assist downward movement, and connects with treadle g by hinging to rod 1. y

The leaf-tobacco, afterliavin g been stripped, is spread on cushion a. Then the holding-pads b b, by the action of the arms 0 c and combination-treadle, descend upon cushion a and hold the leaf. The movement of the holdingpads b I) must be so that they do not slide on cushion a, and I gain this movement by having the movable pads 12 b hinged to movable and curved arms 0 o and these attached to trcadle g, as described.

I am aware that prior to my invention booking-tables have been made with cushions.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a booking-table for leaftobacco with movable holding-pads b b, attached to arms 0 c, and these connecting with atreadle, g, all substantially as set forth.

CHARLES SEEL.

Witnesses:

HOWELL WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SEEL. 

